I would prefer the USPS bring back basic banking at their branches.

Looks like they trialed doing that a bit.

True, forgot about them! Only issue with Lems (or at least their boots) is their construction doesn’t lend itself super well to resole-ing (though neither do Vivo’s, really), though I have heard of cobblers doing it by grinding down the existing sole and gluing on a replacement.

The Jim Green Barefoot African Ranger is constructed like a traditional boot, so is easily resoled by any cobbler, but I had to send mine back since they weren’t wide enough for me (they seem to be on the more narrow end of ‘barefoot’ style boots).

But for how affordable lems are, they’re a solid choice and have way more cushion than vivos.

After trying Barefoot style shoes (which usually have much wider than normal toeboxes) I can never go back.

Vivobarefoot shoes are expensive, but pretty high quality and have a great toebox.

Freet are more affordable and often made of recycled material, but some of their designs can be slightly odd looking. They hold up well though, very nice quality from the reviews I’ve seen. They’re made in the UK, I believe.

Splay shoes offer what is essentially wide toebox vans.

There’s tons more though. I’d recommend Anya’s Reviews to narrow down what suits you best, she’s pretty legit in her info from what I’ve seen.

Thanks Blaze ^^

Short answer:

It would be the same people. Changing instances is just changing your access point to lemmy. Your ‘local’ tab will change to show only communities that were created on that new instance, but your ‘all’ and ‘home’ tabs will show all the same communities and posts that you see now on lemmy.world, and all the same people will be there.

Long answer explaining how this whole system works in detail:

Lemmy is a federated platform, which just means each server is interconnected with each other.

Imagine if you downloaded lemmy and installed it onto your computer directly, turning your own computer into a server/instance, just like hosting a game server for minecraft. You could send the link for your server to your friends, and they could connect to your computer and create accounts for themselves there, which would let them create communities that all your friends would see show up in their local tab view.

But if one of your friends put a link to a lemmy.world community in the search bar of your lemmy, it would tell your server to reach out to lemmy.world across the internet and create a connection between your server and that lemmy.world community, and to keep thst connection going forever, meaning that any posts or comments that are made to that lemmy.world community will automatically send copies to your server, basically mirroring them, and allowing posts to show up in your friends ‘all’ view, or if they subscribe to that lemmy.world community, those posts will show up in their ‘home’ view as well, along with any other subscriptions they have. But their ‘local’ view will only ever show the communities that they made on your server on your computer.

If your friends comment on those mirrored posts that were sent to your server, your server will send them to the lemmy.world community where it will then distribute out your friends comments to any other server/instance that has users subscribed to that community too, so that those servers can mirror those comments as well, thus making everyone able to communucate with eachother no matter what instance they are logging in from.

So the only major change between instances is their local view.

Sopuli.xyz is a solid general instance, as is discuss.online.

In addition to what Blaze said, bear in mind you can use the same username on a different instance when creating a new account, only the @ part will change.

First, I’d recommend going to your settings page and exporting your profile data, this will let you take your subscriptions and block list with you.

Then head on over to https://join-lemmy.org/instances, and pick an instance that interests you. Personally, I would recommend Sopuli.xyz, since they have good admins, an up-to-date lemmy, and a good sized community.

If you have Anarchist leanings, I’d recommend Lemmy.dbzer0 or slrpnk.net

Things I personally look for in an instance:

• An active admin that has a level head and seems like a good person (preferably multiple admins to prevent Bus factor)
• Instance runs a fairly recent version of Lemmy. If they run a very old version, that could be a sign of problems
• Is defederated with troll or drama filled instances
• Having a unique theme or vibe instead of being a general server is a big plus that makes it stand out, but not strictly necessary

FYI, you can now post instances at [email protected] :)

So far I’ve just seen some deeply racist memes and comments. Thankfully it hasn’t been very frequent, so it’s not really been anything I had to cope with mentally or anything.

Interesting how in every case, they betray their anarchist allies as soon as they get even a feeble hold of state power. There must be a really good peer reviewed paper that conclusively suggests that must be done. Scientifically.

The concepts of socialism were pretty nailed down by the 1930’s, and anyone back then who was familiar with any of the leading socialist ideas would not call nationalism or an ethno state socialist.

The Nazi’s called their party socialist because it was popular with the working classes at the time, but they were not actually socialist in policy whatsoever, it was only ever a branding/optics choice.

Consider at that same time the Spanish Civil War was happening, which involved a huge faction of Anarchists spreading the much older ideas of Kropotkin and Bakunin, and they rightly called the Nazi’s Fascist, and absolutely did not consider them a twisted offshoot of socialism.

I would argue authoritarian ‘leftism’ is just a misnamed right wing ideology wearing the sheepskin of socialism, where as Anarchism / Libertarian Socialism is the ‘real’ far left.

If it’s mimicking star wars rebel assault, I imagine mouse control is the most likely.

I hope Rojava makes it out okay and things don’t get fucky.

There’s multiple paths in the game that open up slightly different content. There’s a critical point when you can choose to take Sophia with you, or to go it alone with either thinking (harder puzzles) or fighting.

The balloon is shortly before the submarine on that path (I believe it’s the sophia path)

It’s not a welrod, that would require a totally different motion to chamber another round, which is more awkward and slower than what’s seen in the video.

He likely had a browning action pistol with a silencer attached, but didn’t test it well enough to iron out the jamming issue. That would explain the unfired bullets being found, as he likely ejected some accidentally while racking the slide.

It warms my heart to know that damn parrot is burned into someone else’s memory too

The wealth disparity is the same, but the populace and circumstances are a bit different:

1. There was not a literal fascist propaganda news network brainwashing half the voter base (Fox news)
2. There wasn’t a significant population which believed any ol conspiracy tossed at them
3. His political opponents didn’t have a cult, comprised of anti-intellectuals
4. We didn’t have an enemy state attempting to influence our elections (at least, not nearly on the same level)
5. Had a serious left-leaning populist political opponent in Huey Long (before his assassination) preaching his Share the Wealth progam.

I don’t disagree that it was a hard fight for the working class to even get that much, even without those externalities